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    Bulbs keep blowing

    It got really old here this week, so I broke down and put a heat lamp in my coop, despite having never previously doing so. Within a day it had blown. I replaced it with another 250 watt bulb and it blew in 5 minutes. Since I was now out of heat lamps and don't really care to just keep...
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    Keeping food in feeder?

    I was feeding crumbles, but they were wasting it and the wild birds were eating it up too. We switched to pellets and have had no problems. My feeder is a 5 gallon bucket on the cut off barrel bottom as the tray. Very simple and free. It's set up on a concrete block in the dry and no...
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    Comment by 'RAGchickens' in article 'Kruses Koop Deville'

    This coop has served us well for a year now. The biggest changes I would make are that the nest boxes would have been higher and I have added a board to the back to keep the litter from being kicked out through the screen when using the deep litter method.
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    Kruses Koop Deville

    Our coop was built from mostly reclaimed, recycled and reused materials. We had to purchase a few hinges and latches, but otherwise we found the stuff in our garage or otherwise acquired it. It says something for keeping those odds and ends that "you might need someday." I started by reading...
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